The largest snake in Yellowstone National Park is the bullsnake. They are unique in that they look similar to rattlesnakes and even mimic them in some instances. Bullsnakes are a gopher snake ...

Additionally, we will learn about the largest venomous snake in the park ... hence the name “gopher snakes.” Bullsnakes eat small mammals and subdue them using constriction, not venom.

So when a gopher snake was discovered Saturday in a shipment of Christmas trees being unloaded at a store in Hilo, it sounded alarm bells. “Store staff unloaded about half the container before ...